Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

Discover how DNA science and a single strand of hair reshaped the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

Contrary to some critics' beliefs, we don't need a definition to fight hatred

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

My second book about the Supreme Court offers a more nuanced diagnosis of exactly what’s wrong with the institution—and how (and why) we should fix it.

J Street has become an indispensable voice and home. We hope our constructive guidance and advice can help strengthen that voice in more organizational settings within the mainstream Jewish community.

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

An Iowa judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling company, the Des Moines Register and Gannett.

Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted

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All over the world, government lawyers have crucial roles, but in many nations, they are under considerable pressure, and they may be marginalized, ignored, fir

A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.

In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Gloria Steinem on what older people can teach America

The remains of twelve Indigenous children are coming home from the most notorious federal Indian Boarding School in the U.S., including two students from Oklahoma.

News and Observer: In a split vote, the North Carolina State Board of Elections approved new guidelines for mail-in ballots on Friday, just hours before those ballots were sent to voters. The new poli...

The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals.

Casey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.

County commissioners approved a list of sites that drew criticism from voting rights advocates and local civic groups.

Election fraud is exceedingly rare, but President Trump has fixated on rooting it out this year, claiming without evidence that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote.

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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Treasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database. It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it.

Childcare. Healthcare. Groceries. Gas. Every essential costs more since the pandemic.

Well this Wayne Allyn Root interview clip is making the rounds today: This is ridiculous and people should not panic over it. The President has no role to play in running elections, a points courts ha...